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DISASTERS IN 1898. 



mine, about 75 killed. Trains in collision, Hubbard, 

 Iowa, 4 engines wrecked, 4 men killed. 



18. Trains in collision, Cramer, Cal., 2 killed. 



Fire : London, large amount of stage properties 

 burned belonging to Sir Henry Irving. 



25. Train derailed by burning woods, Waycross, 

 ( ,a., 1 killed, 4 hurt. 



27. Shipwreck: French steamer La Champagne 

 disabled at sea, towed into Halifax by steamship 

 Roman. Storm: many lives lost on the Coloro 

 Islands, near Madagascar. 



Fires in February : Naugatuck, Conn., rubber 

 works, loss, $700,000: Winnipeg, Manitoba, $400,- 

 000; Scran ton, Pa., Young Men's Christian Asso- 

 ciation building, etc., $160,000; Savannah, Ga., 

 Roman Catholic cathedral, $225,000 ; Fort Worth, 

 Texas, business houses, $250,000; Pittsburg, Pa., 

 warehouses, etc., $1.500,000 ; Cleveland, Ohio, busi- 

 ness houses, $375,000; New York office buildings, 

 $250.000 ; Pittsburg, Pa,, wall-paper works, $260,- 

 000; Dyersburg, Teiin., mills, $200,000: Louisville, 

 Ky., tobacco warehouses, $350,000 ; and 294 others ; 

 4 ate loss, $12,629,300. 



Summary of train accidents in February: 76 col- 

 lisions. 07 derailments, 2 others; total, 175. Killed: 

 '2'2 employees, 1 passenger, 4 others ; total, 27. Hurt : 

 58 employees, 45 passengers; total, 103. 



March 1. Hurricane in the western Pacific, many 

 shipwrecks, French gunboat sunk, heavy loss of 

 life. 



2. Train derailed, Fayetteville, N. Y., 2 killed, 2 

 hurt. 



9. Trains in collision, Walkerton, Ind., 3 boys 

 stealing a ride killed. 



12. Fire: New York lodging house burned, 11 

 perish. 



16. Fire in Chicago, 16 perish. Shipwreck : un- 

 known steamer sunk off Lowestoft, all hands lost. 



18. Explosion : Santa Isabel mine, Cordova, 

 Spain. 60 killed, many missing. 



19. Earthquake in the Spice Islands, 60 lives lost. 



21. Trains in collision, New Cross, England, 3 

 killed, several hurt. 



22. Trains in collision, Roscoe, 111., 2 killed, 5 

 hurt. Floods cause much distress and loss in Ohio 

 and Indiana. 



23. Faulty structure: bridge breaks over White 

 river, near Columbus, Ind., whole train falls into 

 the water, 20 injured, 1 fatally. 



25. Storms of great severity in the British Islands, 

 Spanish torpedo boat Audax badly damaged, nearly 

 200 fishing boats lost. 



26. Severe storm and cold on the coast of New- 

 foundland, 48 seal huntersperish, 50 badly frozen. 



31. Earthquake in San Francisco, the city severe- 

 ly shaken, much damage done to large buildings and 

 to the United States navy yard at Mare Island. 



Fires in March : Providence, R. I., warehouses, 

 loss, $150,000 ; Deadwood, S. Dak., smelting works, 

 $230,000; Baltimore, Md., factories, $180,000; Co- 

 hoes, N. Y., mills, $450,000 ; Chicago, 111., hotel and 

 business houses, $680,000 ; San Francisco business 

 block, $150,000; and 171 others; aggregate loss, 

 $7.645,200. 



Summary of train accidents in March : 66 col- 

 lisions, 98 derailments, 8 others; total, 172. Killed: 

 15 employees, 1 passenger, 3 others ; total, 19. 

 Hurt: 92 employees, 31 passengers, 1 other; total, 

 128. 



April 3. Avalanches: about 150 persons perish 

 in the Chilkoot pass, Alaska. Flood: the Ohio 

 river bursts its levees at Shawneetown, 111., many 

 persons drowned. 



5. Severe snowstorm in Middle and Eastern 

 States, considerable damage to growing crops ; 

 floods in Illinois, 23 persons drowned at Shawnee- 

 town, 7 missing. 



6. Flood : Mississippi river passes the danger line 

 at Memphis. 



7. Fire: about 1,000 houses burned in Tokio, 

 Japan. 



17. Explosion in Charlestown, Mass., on Hoosic 

 Tunnel docks, fire follows, damage, $600,000. 



21. Fire : the Rev. Dr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, in 

 London, burned. 



26. Explosion : powder mills at Santa Cruz, Cal. 

 fire in Glasgow, Scotland, $750,000 damage. 



30. Explosion : Clipper Gap Powder Mills, near 

 Auburn, Cal., struck by lightning. 



Fires in April : Lincoln, Neb., business houses 

 loss, $200,000 ; Rockhill, S. C., sundry buildings 

 $200,000; Union Islands, Ga., mills and lumber 

 $200,000 ; Sacramento, Cal., railroad stores, $250, 

 000; Erwin.Pa., plate-glass works, $550,000; Ches 

 ter, Mass., grain elevator, etc., $500,000 ; Belt. Mont, 

 coal crusher, $250,000; and 171 others; aggregate 

 loss, $8,211,000. 



Summary of train accidents in April : 50 col 

 lisions, 68 derailments, 7 others ; total, 125. Killed 

 17 employees, 1 other; total, 18. Hurt: 23 em 

 ployees, 21 passengers, 4 others ; total, 48. 



May 7. Train derailed by exploding dynamite 

 Maria's, Mont., 3 killed, 2 hurt. 



8. Train derailed, Columbus, Ohio, 4 killed, 2( 

 hurt. 



21. Fire and explosion in Zollern mines, 45 killed 

 Trains in collision, Rossville, Tenn., 1 soldier killed,. 

 6 hurt; also at Formosa, 111., 4 killed, 20 hurt. ^ 



23. Collision : military train wrecked near Wa\>, 

 Ga., 2 soldiers killed. 



27. Trains in collision, Graysville, Tenn., 5 killed, 



2 hurt. 



Fires in May : Augusta, Ga., grain elevator, loss, 

 $200,000: Ballardsville. Mass., storehouses, $4v!.V 

 000; Philadelphia, toys, etc., $225,000; Chic-a.-.. 

 grain elevators, $1,200,000 ; Attleboro, Mass., jew- 

 elry, $300,000 ; Toledo, Ohio, stores, $340,000 ; Dal- 

 \as, Texas, furniture, etc., $375,000 ; Baltimore, Md., 

 stables, etc., $255,000; and 155 others; aggregate 

 loss, $11,072,200. 



Summary of train accidents in May: 68 colli- 

 sions, 76 derailments, 6 others ; total, 150. Killed. 

 28 employees, 4 passengers, 4 others ; total, 36. 

 Hurt: 78 employees, 42 passengers, 18 others^ 

 total, 138. 



June 1. Shipwreck: schooner Lady Jane Gray 

 founders off coast of Alaska, 34 lost, 27 saved. 



2. Fire : Peshawar, India, about 4,000 houses- 

 burned. 



3. Train derailed, Sedgwick, Col., 10 hurt. 



'7. Train derailed, Parkersburg. W. Va., 2 killed, 



3 hurt. Rock placed on track by depraved boys. 



9. Train derailed, Clyde, N. Y., 1 killed, 4 hurt. 



10. Train derailed by a landslide, Williston, N^ 

 Dak., 2 killed, 1 hurt. 



14. Explosion : steam boiler. Ironton, Mo., 1 killed, 



4 hurt. Trains in collision, Richmond, Va., 1 kille 1, 

 4 hurt, 



19. Trains derailed, Shawsville, Va., 3 killed, 8 

 hurt; also at Glen Onoko, Pa., 2 killed, 5 hurt. 



21. Faulty struct ure: Blackwall, England, a plat- 

 form falls at the launching of British battle ship Al- 

 bion, 37 drowned. 



22. Runaway engine at Niagara Falls. 1 killed. 



24. Train derailed, St. Joseph, Mo., 2 killed. 



26. Train wrecked, Tupelo, Miss., 6 killed, 14 

 hurt, most of them soldiers. Fire : Clifton House 

 burned, Niagara Falls. 



28. Train derailed, Vinegrove, Ky.. 2 killed. 

 Fires in June: Superior, Wis., chair factory, loss, 



$200,000; Portsmouth, Ohio, rolling mill, $300,0(0; 

 Detroit business block, $295,000; Park City, Utah, 

 various buildings, $600,000 ; Albuquerque, New Mex- 

 ico, opera house, etc., $200,000 ; Lincoln, Neb., stores,. 



